Reed, D.
David Reed is the Director of plant maintenance for Eastman Chemical’s Longview, Texas operations. Eastman is a global specialty chemical company with approximately 14,000 employees and 50 manufacturing sites around the world.
Maintenance: Zero-based, custom-built, reliability-driven—A new kind of maintenance organization
Environment & Safety
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/ Project Management
/ Refining
/ Engineering & Design
/ Environment
/ Equipment
/ Management
/ People
/ Rotating Equipment
/ Safety
/ Americas
In the October 2018 issue of <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i>, the authors published an article—“Improving plant performance by changing a maintenance culture”—describing the first two years of Eastman Chemical Co.’s Longview, Texas site’s journey to maintenance excellence, which began in 2016.
Maintenance: Improving plant performance by changing a maintenance culture
Over the last 2 yr, the plant maintenance department (PMD) at Eastman Chemical Co.’s Longview, Texas site produced these significant improvements to plant performance.
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